The #Chiefs are hiring Steve Spagnuolo as their new defensive coordinator, sources say. The former #Giants DC and interim HC/#Rams HC began his NFL coaching career as an #Eagles assistant under Andy Reid. Now rejoins Big Red in KC.
Originally Posted by Hoover:
How do you save money against the cap if you are not extending him?
By restructuring his contract. You take a portion of his base salary and convert it to a signing bonus. That signing bonus then gets split up over the years left in his contract. [Reply]
Originally Posted by The Franchise:
By restructuring his contract. You take a portion of his base salary and convert it to a signing bonus. That signing bonus then gets split up over the years left in his contract.
So I take a portion of his $14.750M base salary and pay it out as a signing bonus, which if I'm not extending him, means it all goes to 2020, making him more painful to cut when I have to pay Mahomes and he's a 32 year old DE...
No, not doing to do that. Too little savings. I want to walk from that contract in 2020. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
He doesn’t think they’ll trade Ramsey, but I reminded him that I was confident we wouldn’t trade Peters this time last year too.
Theyre gonna have to move some of those defensive high money guys. I doubt they'd trade Ramsey, he's just so damn good. But maybe they're tired of his shit. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
He doesn’t think they’ll trade Ramsey, but I reminded him that I was confident we wouldn’t trade Peters this time last year too.
And the Vikings are going to cut Trae Waynes right? They are in cap hell after Cousins and paying their WRs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hoover:
So I take a portion of his $14.750M base salary and pay it out as a signing bonus, which if I'm not extending him, means it all goes to 2020, making him more painful to cut when I have to pay Mahomes and he's a 32 year old DE...
No, not doing to do that. Too little savings. I want to walk from that contract in 2020.
Or you could just frontload or back load the contract and basically renegotiate the deal into an extension. If we got him for less than a $10m cap hit per year... Even for an older guy that's not that unreasonable. [Reply]